Pietersen back is a big bonus, says Anderson

AUTHOR(S)

Peter Hayter

PUB. DATE

October 2012

SOURCE

Mail on Sunday;10/28/2012, p17

SOURCE TYPE

Newspaper

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

KEVIN PIETERSEN will be welcomed back into the England Test squad in the small hours of tomorrow without a backward glance, according to James Anderson, one of those accused by some of conspiring to destroy the maverick batsman's career.

WITH Australian cricket imploding ahead of back-to-back Ashes series, the England camp are working to ensure their new togetherness is not disrupted. So don't expect negative comments about Kevin Pietersen in Matt Prior's autobiography this summer or in the updated paperback edition of Jimmy...

KEVIN PIETERSEN will be welcomed back into the England Test squad in the small hours of tomorrow without a backward glance, according to James Anderson, one of those accused by some of conspiring to destroy the maverick batsman's career.

ENGLAND'S resolve to move on without Kevin Pietersen remains as strong as ever despite his desperate Twitter pleas and the appointment of his friend Eoin Morgan to the one-day captaincy. National selector James Whitaker was irritated when Pietersen's name came up at Lord's on Saturday and said:...

KEVIN PIETERSEN has insisted he was 'playing for the team's cause' after attracting criticism for the leg-side hoick against Mitchell Johnson that cost him his wicket on the second morning of the Melbourne Test. Pietersen also said England had been 'a bit fragile' as they attempted to get...

KEVIN PIETERSEN, arriving in Australia as a gun for hire in the Big Bash, says he has not given up hope of returning with England. Yet when did Pietersen last play cricket? Not talked about it, wrote about it, tweeted on it â€” actually played it. August, according to his website. It's hard...

ENGLAND outcast Kevin Pietersen last night agreed to play cricket for Surrey this summer. Pietersen was last week left out of England's squads for the limited-overs tour of the West Indies and the ICC World T20, with a statement from the England and Wales Cricket Board on Sunday suggesting his...